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FIVE MEISSEN FIGURES OF LADIES ALLEGORICAL OF THE FIVE SENSES, wearing striped and flowered dress and seated on low stools, four modelled beside a low table laden with the symbols of each sense, and including Sight gazing at her reflection in a mirror, Smell placing a bouquet to her nose taken from a basket of flowers, Taste eating a pastry from a selection placed among wine and fruit, Touch having her finger bitten by a bird in a cage, Sound seated at a spinet, each on a shaped-rectangular base edged with a band of white and gilt gadroons (small damages and chip to applied and moulded decoration, some tiny chips to bases), blue crossed swords marks, some Pressnumern and incised marks, circa 1880
5in. (12.5cm.) to 6in. (15cm.) high
5in. (12.5cm.) to 6in. (15cm.) high